STANDARDS

spaces around operators
snake_case for variables and functions
camelCase for classes and methods
verbose naming is more important than a detailed documentation
R code is tested using testthat and python code in dev branch using unittest

versioning

we try to keep master branch clean (i.e. production ready code).
dev branch should be also a working code, however here mistakes are permitted. Most of the development is done in subbranches of dev branch, once a feature is implemented, it should be merged to dev. I like to use --no-ff to keep a record, what was developed where (this might be a bad practice and if you know why, let me know).
One rule I would like to keep is this. There must be at least 72 hours incubation period between commits merged into dev and merging dev into master. The reason is simple, if there are any mistakes that were not spotted, there is a change to catch them. Also it takes while to run all the tests and stuff (the travis.ci testing is not working yet, but I hope it will quite soon).

The future is C backend based on FastK, inference and plotting in R and python user interface.